States and societies are in crisis around the world, raising questions around the nature and quality of domestic social contracts. The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing weakness in policy visions, institutional fragility, and incapacities to harness societal compliance. Crisis, however, offers opportunity to build forward better by strengthening social contracts at all levels. This paper by the Center on International Cooperation, New York University, considers how social contracts provide frameworks to foster new thinking and shape transformative policies to build more inclusive societies. The cases of South Africa, Tunisia, Colombia, and South Korea reveal that pathways exist, but are neither easy nor predictable. 
https://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/cic_pathfinders_social_contracts_a_pathway_for_more_inclusive_societies.pdf

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